Anna Kuzemko, Leading researcher at the M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv (Ukraine)

Title: "Biodiversity plots methodology for monitoring of grassland habitats in Ukraine"

Raimund Nagel, Group leader in the Department of Plant Physiology, Institute for Biology at Leipzig University, Leipzig

Title: "A tale of two terpenes."

Julian Schrader, Research Fellow at the Macquarie University, Sydney (Australia)

Title: "The future of island ecosystems: temporal and spatial vegetation dynamics in a fragmented world"

Christopher Barratt, Postdoc at E&A and sDiv

Title: "Life on the edge: assessing intraspecific vulnerability to global change by integrating ecological, environmental and evolutionary data"

Benjamin Dechant, Postdoc at sDiv

Title: „Intercomparison of global foliar trait maps: upscaling approaches, spatial patterns and evaluation with sPlot data“